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South Dakota's Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages - 2006

Annual Pay for Covered Workers by County

The table below shows annual pay for covered workers by county for 2005 and 2006. The county with the highest annual pay for 2006 was Union County at $38,593. The majority of South Dakota’s counties experienced increases in annual pay. The highest percentage gains occurred in Moody, Deuel and Sanborn counties. The largest actual numeric gains occurred in Moody, Deuel, and Buffalo counties. 

Annual Pay for Covered Workers
2006

County

2005

2006

Percent Change
2005-2006

 

County

2005

2006

Percent
Change
2005-2006

Aurora

$20,980

$22,355

6.6%

Hyde

$25,987

$25,919

-0.3%

Beadle

$27,423

$28,064

2.3%

Jackson

$21,536

$22,685

5.3%

Bennett

$23,022

$23,374

1.5%

Jerauld

$22,966

$23,977

4.4%

Bon Homme

$23,718

$23,917

0.8%

Jones

$20,039

$20,466

2.1%

Brookings

$28,268

$29,818

5.5%

Kingsbury

$23,597

$24,910

5.6%

Brown

$28,104

$29,315

4.3%

Lake

$26,081

$26,851

3.0%

Brule

$21,028

$21,150

0.6%

Lawrence

$24,625

$25,353

3.0%

Buffalo

$28,723

$30,796

7.2%

Lincoln

$30,399

$31,532

3.7%

Butte

$22,302

$23,299

4.5%

Lyman

$20,608

$20,918

1.5%

Campbell

$18,810

$19,954

6.1%

McCook

$21,705

$22,986

5.9%

Charles Mix

$21,779

$22,528

3.4%

McPherson

$18,101

$18,639

3.0%

Clark

$20,848

$21,642

3.8%

Marshall

$24,933

$26,010

4.3%

Clay

$25,055

$25,736

2.7%

Meade

$27,372

$29,071

6.2%

Codington

$26,894

$28,028

4.2%

Mellette

$19,888

$19,715

-0.9%

Corson

$23,364

$24,314

4.1%

Miner

$21,741

$22,679

4.3%

Custer

$24,187

$25,141

3.9%

Minnehaha

$33,823

$35,121

3.8%

Davison

$26,427

$27,588

4.4%

Moody

$27,651

$30,267

9.5%

Day

$21,236

$21,729

2.3%

Pennington

$28,948

$30,026

3.7%

Deuel

$26,231

$28,413

8.3%

Perkins

$20,877

$20,900

0.1%

Dewey

$27,174

$28,666

5.5%

Potter

$21,523

$21,929

1.9%

Douglas

$21,216

$22,814

7.5%

Roberts

$22,338

$23,917

7.1%

Edmunds

$22,689

$22,923

1.0%

Sanborn

$20,444

$22,120

8.2%

Fall River

$24,995

$26,727

6.9%

Shannon

$28,686

$29,879

4.2%

Faulk

$20,103

$21,286

5.9%

Spink

$22,749

$23,721

4.3%

Grant

$28,688

$29,122

1.5%

Stanley

$24,133

$24,161

0.1%

Gregory

$20,454

$21,493

5.1%

Sully

$21,910

$22,414

2.3%

Haakon

$22,865

$23,791

4.0%

Todd

$26,316

$27,217

3.4%

Hamlin

$24,545

$25,169

2.5%

Tripp

$22,380

$23,075

3.1%

Hand

$22,372

$23,058

3.1%

Turner

$23,382

$25,159

7.6%

Hanson

$22,475

$23,802

5.9%

Union

$39,858

$38,593

-3.2%

Harding

$24,299

$25,560

5.2%

Walworth

$21,385

$21,904

2.4%

Hughes

$29,724

$31,102

4.6%

Yankton

$27,766

$29,070

4.7%

Hutchinson

$22,448

$22,943

2.2%

Ziebach

$25,055

$25,944

3.5%

Data subject to revision.
Produced by the SD Department of Labor, Labor Market Information Center, in cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 

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